ANA Grounds Dreamliner Fleet After Emergency

1/15/2013 9:46PM

All Nippon Airways grounds its entire fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners, after one of its planes made an emergency landing in Japan. This follows a series of problems with the 787s, which triggered safety investigations. The WSJ's Jake Schlesinger has the details.

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I ... the the ... AF is grounded its entire fleet of seventy seven Dreamliners ... after a plane was forced to make an emergency landing this morning in Japan ... the story still unfolding joining me now from Tokyo is Jake passenger ... to give your teeth for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones is let's ... say thanks for joining tell us what we know about this an M D tells are still unfolding as we speak ... sch yes will we know is that ... indeed as to fly the ... entire mountains of ... Japan made an emergency landing ... aam ... Chanos is the first time in the miner has actually taken an extreme caution ... after reported incident they need emergency landing ... after ... a battery alarm alert went off on ... after ... the fire department the smoke was detected somewhere inside the plane ... I suppose is that he smelled something ... on all the passengers were evacuated ... safely there was no problem safety with anybody ... they did employee of this law is on the plane Amir is rather dramatic footage of an on Japanese TV this morning ... again I believe that's the first time ... that extreme measures been taken in the case of the Dreamliner with all the instance recently ... and eight we know this is a huge issue for Boeing right now this is in us playing they've basically state their future on it ... but Japan has such a high exposure to this play now and they have seventeen of the seventy seventh ... Sell has a bunch what's happening with the N a N Jell shares and was jumping into ... you know an angel shares in Onyx even hit them hard and so far today ... um your Ansley right is that it's not as Boeing is heavily invested in this area name shall IRAs well ... Japan as the market is the most heavily invested in aam ... in the Dreamliner's of any major markets ... are using them not just the national flights for domestic flights ... I am a mean even I'm a minor voice in the DVD on how they were the first airliner ... actively get that that that airplane ... aam as for gels continue we don't know yet they haven't said anything ... ay ay ay is you mention the outset his ground and airplanes at least for one day to do inspections ... aam Zhao O'Hagan don't know whether they will follow suit or not ... the transport ministry here in the last two or three days ... has talked about the need go on the cake in close look at the planes to transport minister on Tuesday ... the city we made some comments about how Japanese people are getting worried about these claims ... um we have not yet hurting him in an official on the record with the Transport Ministry today ... that's another thing that will be keeping an eye out for ... and Jacob ... perhaps more than any other country in Japan and Boeing had such a close relationship so much so to the point that I'm basically had a monopoly in the market for ... many decades what is this mean for the future of the Boeing Japan relationship ... and also was this mean for aircraft of this mantra for them to ... finally get into the market ... we are actually run ... Airbus is as good as ... Japan even their worst market in the world and not able to get in Boeing has had a lock on the market in part ... on not just because they've been effective at selling their planes to airliners but because they were close to Japanese manufacturers ... who played a role in the speaking parts particularly ... for the Dreamliner ... but as you know in in at least historically whether it's still true ... in the modern David Japanese investor policy is dictated ... that market entry in a lot of ways in selecting Boeing as it has historically had easier access to ... selling the airline has been doing work so closely with Japanese manufacturers as well ... I think it's too soon to say whether this aam ... represents a crack in Boeing's dominance there been said that before and they have ... withstood the is um Japan's market is you will know ... it can ... it can be ruled by inertia ... ALM so I think it it's the right question to ask but I think of me while we know whether this actually changes the market shares or market opportunities ... and to pay as you well know is the country and train playing car or aficionados ... is there any kind of consumer backlash or comments that were hearing about the seven eight seven with regard to edge out people who are extra cautious about ... flying on these plans are saying that they don't want to ... the ... keynote today there's been no sign of the um what was in junior transport minister yesterday in surprisingly one country surprising to me ... aam did raise the question safety concerns um ... this incident perhaps is the potential to change that and that began it was the drum of an emergency landing ... on which was broadcast all over the morning TV ... I'm you know whether that changes the mindset that will have to see I'm ... a big energy level for the next twenty four hour is um he's got the grounding of the fleet so ... that obviously takes care of the issues that are short totally strayed a aam ... I'm unable to see how plays out recently getting great time and the Japanese press ... I ... thank the much Jake all of the intense today this ten top of this unfolding story ... thank so much for joining us for more on this please go the WS J dot com or we'll be updating it all day ... Facer today on my because Sanchanta ...